Gulrez Shah Azhar

Gulrez Shah Azhar, MD PhD is Senior Fellow, Futures Health Scenarios at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington. Dr. Azhar completed his doctoral work in Policy Analysis at the RAND graduate school, where he studied health impacts of heat and worked on a range of diverse health research projects. His training is in medicine, public health, and public policy, and he uses epidemiology, econometric, and evidence-synthesis tools. He is interested in understanding the future impacts of climate change on health conditions.

Commuters walk on waterlogged railway tracks after getting off a stalled train during heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai, India, on July 2, 2019. Several women and at least one boy are walking in a group. One of them is talking on a cell phone. Several are sharing umbrellas. The water, even on the train tracks, which are presumably slightly elevated, is up to their ankles. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Migration

Don’t Call Them Climate Refugees

by Gulrez Shah Azhar

The majority of people displaced by climate change won’t cross international borders, will not be refugees or migrants